"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

"I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling."

"They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."

"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."

"There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours."

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot."

"If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?"

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."

"Three years ago Senator Dan Inouye and I traveled to Ground Zero shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Governor Pataki and Mayor Giuliani met us and brought us up the river to the site. It was a sad and terrible sight, but it was also a proving ground of American strength, courage, and resolve."