"If I could say one thing to young people, it would be: 'Travel!' Get away, for awhile at least, from the place where you have grown up. Sit down at a sidewalk cafe in a foreign country, and strike up a conversation with common people. You will learn things about your country and its actions abroad you were never taught at home.

I suspect that so much reluctance to travel or to allow youth to travel is a combination of fear and lack of imagination, both of which stunt our mental and emotional growth and deprive us of the wisdom the world has to offer.

St. Augustine, the great fourth century bishop and theologian said, 'The world is a book, and those who never travel read only one page.' Perhaps more picturesque is an old Bantu expression, "He who never travels thinks his mother is the only cook." Both partake of a pathetic narrowness. To live is to grow in experience, understanding and wisdom, and there is no greater spur to that than traveling and meeting the world on its own terms."