"When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere."
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"All of life is a foreign country."
"Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall."
"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."
"It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction."
"We don't take a trip. A trip takes us."
"A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer."
"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
"Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months."
"Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor"
"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure."
"Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs."
"The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere."
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
"Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage."
"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."
"The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days."
"Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure."
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt."