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.

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.

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.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

Turning a breakup into a break-over We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

India is my motherland.