Su Yati

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen