I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.