To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.