A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.