When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

By William Least-Heat Moon

You have to taste a culture to understand it.

By Deborah Cater

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

By Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

By Larry Herzberg

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey

By Sharon Shinn

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

By Simon Dring

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with

By Kristine K. Stevens

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."

By Carew Papritz

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

By Donald Miller

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

By Jonathan Safran Foer

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.

By Barbara Hodgson

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

By Dave Eggers

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day

By Mhairi McFarlane

I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray areas.

By Nichole Robertson

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

By James A. Michener