A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.