For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Death is not considerate, or fair.

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.