"Traveling is one way of lengthening life,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.”

“Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.”

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

“Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball”

“So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.”

“I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.”

“Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.”

“It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”