Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

The journey not the arrival matters.

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

People don’t take trips. Trips take people.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.

The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

Hunger is sharper than the sword.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.