I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.

Always lust for the best, because life is too short to be an ordinary.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.