Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.

I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.

Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.

Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.

Door money. It’s a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one’s existence.

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger