Rick Steves Quotes

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

Italy Is Made of Tuff Stuff

Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

Churchill War Rooms: £18, daily 9:30-18:00, last entry one hour before closing.

I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Travel is intensified living ... and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren't to your liking, change your liking.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist.

People everywhere hear the excuse "there's not enough money". In actuality, there is enough money… just different priorities. New stadium, heathcare for all, faster trains, extravagant cathedral, subsidized education, tax cuts, next-generation bomber … each society makes different choices according to its priorities.