Quotes about Travel

For those who choose to live no longer as tourists but as pilgrims, the Songs of Ascents combine all the cheerfulness of a travel song with the practicality of a guidebook and map. Their unpretentious brevity is excellently described by William Faulkner. "They are not monuments, but footprints. A monument only says, 'At least I got this far,' while a footprint says, 'This is where I was when I moved again.'"

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.