I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.

"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.