The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.