Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

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

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.