Success will ruin your life.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.