It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

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

The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.