“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.(One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)”

“We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.”

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

“Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.”