A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I have not yet begun to fight!

He who will not risk cannot win.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Dream and Done

I feel like I have lost all control. I am going to roll with it.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity."

It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.