“In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply.There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.”

“It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.”

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!”

“Yet I thought I saw her stand,A shadow there at my feet,High over the shadowy land.”

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

“An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.”