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

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.

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.

That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.