One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

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.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

By endurance we conquer.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Optimism is true moral courage.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

When things are easy, I hate it.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.