Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought our bow was about to run on to a beach. Screaming seabirds formed a bridge across the sky in the direction of the distant island, which stood out sharper against the horizon as the red background widened and turned gold with the approach of the sun and the full daylight.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.