Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.