“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

"Travel light - preconception and prejudice are unnecessary luggage." - Anonymous

"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." - Caskie Stinnett

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel." - Will Kommen

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

“There is a great moment, when you see, however distant – the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world.” ~ Freya Stark

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins

“It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.” – Selma Lagerlof

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” – Margaret Mead

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G. K. Chesterton

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road." - William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today, today is a gift, that is why it is called the present." - Unknown

"No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous." - Emerson

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"Always use tasteful words - you may have to eat them." - Anonymous

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." - Anonymous

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." - Gerry Spence

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance." - Anonymous

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Education is very important. School, however, is another matter." - Anonymous

"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of." - Geri Weitzman

"Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings." - Hodding Carter

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

"Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged." — Howard Gardner