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

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.

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.

Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25-but still look fabulous together.

Sometimes you have to go through a total loss of inspiration to find what really inspires you the most.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.