The mind of man is capable of anything.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan despite the obstacles.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than life at sea.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.