Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Never confuse motions with action.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.