Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

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.

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

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.