Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.