When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

People are always waiting to be discovered.

Fear focuses the mind.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.