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

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

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.

Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

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

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.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.