Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Even their downtime was epic.

Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.

What you want is within reach. Go for it.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it.” Devon Brooks

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.