The person who has not traveled widely thinks their mother is the greatest cook.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Old age is no place for sissies.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

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.

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.