For many years it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months travel the world through coups d'etat assassinations famines massacres and tsunamis and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
I've always traveled as a kid my parents moved me around a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid living in different countries.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages know countries know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse he may learn to enjoy it.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
To the lover of wilderness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
If we don't get gun-control laws in this country we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions do not try to break them but bend them with gentleness and time.
You will launch many projects but have time to finish only a few. So think plan develop launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.