Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.