But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

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.

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

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.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."