People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than usef…

- Ted Simon

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

- Ted Simon

That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed …

- Ted Simon

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.

- Ted Simon

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph …

- Ted Simon

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likel…

- Ted Simon

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing o…

- Ted Simon

The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social idea…

- Ted Simon

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

- Ted Simon