"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."

"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."

"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."

"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"It is a timeless truth that fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter."

"It is a steadfast truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream."