From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

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

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

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.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.