Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.

Feel the joy of life when you cry, when you smile, love or feel shy.

Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!

When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.