To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.