Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
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.