Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.

—Robert J. Hastings

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

—Saint Augustine

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return, But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

—Jan Myrdal

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

—Agnes Repplier

My heart is warm with the friend I make, / And better friends I’ll not be knowing; / Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, / No matter where it’s going.

—Edna St Vincent Millay

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.

—Maya Angelou

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

—Yogi Berra

Any successful journey begins by packing your luggage full of imagination.

—Kathrine Palmer Peterson

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 lovingly, our own.

—Margaret Mead

He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him.

—Dutch proverb

Trips do not end when you return home — usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin.

—Agnes E. Benedict and Adele Franklin