Rick Steves Quotes
Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.
Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.
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.
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.
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 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.
I believe if you’re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.
If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.
I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.
I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.
There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.
If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.
