Bernard Moitessier Quotes

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.