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.

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.

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

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.

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.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

Patience is the key to content.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.