All a man can betray is his conscience.

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.

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.