Ella Maillart

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

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