The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

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.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

They say an old man is twice a child

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.