Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.