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

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.

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

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

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

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