Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.

Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.

Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

Don’t waste your time, living other’s dream. Live your dreams. Dare to be you.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]

I ran straight through the boundaries a married couple should live by.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.