• "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."  -Emily Dickinson, poet
  • "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a distination."  -Roy Goodman, conductor
  •  "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -Albert Einstain 
  • "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." -Patrick Henry, statesman
  • "Only in solitude do we find ourselves." -Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, philosopher
  • "One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere ." -Willa Cather, novelist
  • "Our destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." -John Pearson, theologian    
  • "Travel is fatal to prejudice." -Mark Twain, writer    
  • "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." -Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, writer  
  • "I am one of these who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." -Anna Louise Strong, writer   
  • "A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet." -Lao Tzu, philosopher
  • "Travel makes one modest: you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." -Gustav Flaubert, novelist 

  •  "The way for us to be wise is to foresee the great tendencies & currents of the universe in the leanings & motions of the little straws which our eyes can see." -Ralf Waldo Emerson, philosopher