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

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 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.

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

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.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Remember we are all but travelers here.

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.