“Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.”

“the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”

“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”

“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.”

“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

“Reach what you cannot”