Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

Let your mind be harmonious with nature

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.