He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

Murder was a fascination as always.

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

Don't be angry at your smile

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

Big government squashes the human spirit

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.