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

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

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.

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 can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.