Henning Mankell Quotes

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

I would love to do a film in Africa.

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

Travel teaches tolerance.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

When we moved to Europe when I was a teenager, I really did not want to go. I was happy in my school, with my friends, but looking back on it, it was the best experience I've ever had. We traveled every weekend. I experienced incredible new cultures, museums, cities, and it really opened up my eyes.

After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.

I like stories about the world, where we're at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a 'go bag' packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent - I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment's notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.