For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because of any agenda or deliberate dissimulation, but simply because it's filtered and comes very often from someone whose judgment I might not trust in other circumstances.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.