The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

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

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

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

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.