Rick Steves Quotes

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

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

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

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

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

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

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