He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.