Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.