Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you – it’s like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.