You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

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

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

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

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.