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.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

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

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.