The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

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.

Never crave for anyone, you will get what you're destined in your life! Trust Existence!

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

I was x years old in the year x2.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.