It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.