Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

To understand humanity, you must first understand yourself.

Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.

Have some carrots. They're good for your eyes.""Then you have some fries. They're good for your... I don't know. They're just good.

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.