You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk cli…

- Ella Maillart

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

- Ella Maillart

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

- Ella Maillart

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

- Ella Maillart

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

- Ella Maillart

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

- Ella Maillart

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

- Ella Maillart

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

- Ella Maillart

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

- Ella Maillart