“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”

“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”

“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”