There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

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