The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Unlike exotic fruit or fancy cars, democracy is best if it is grown locally. It may take root in the common desire of the people who choose to adopt it, but it cannot be imposed from the outside.

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

Live like your always trying to impress someone