Travel Necessity Quotes

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

The one thing that I cannot live without when I'm traveling is a small container of tea tree oil. It's not the most glamorous thing, but if you get a cut, a mosquito bite, a small breakout, no matter what it is, it's my little cure-all. It's inexpensive, it's small enough to carry on, and I bring it with me all the time.

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

A throat-coating tea with some honey is very soothing for my throat, so I always travel with that.

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.