One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.