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

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

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.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

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

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

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.