Happiness is simple and inexpensive. Perhaps the first, simplest, and greatest secret of happiness is to do, as you grow up, exactly what you said when you were little. I wanted to become a traveller!

We had an aunt who travelled a lot. Her husband worked in embassies, and they would go together to various places around the world. And every time she returned, she would tell me about her experiences in the places they visited. She had a fantastic gift to transport me with her thoughts to where she had just come from. For example: when she told me about the markets in Cairo, I was in the markets of Cairo. That’s what I wanted to become too: a traveller!