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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Music should always be an adventure.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.