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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.