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

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.

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.

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

Every event in one’s life has a lesson to teach. The thoughtful imbibe the lesson and forget the incident. The thoughtless forget the lesson but keep thinking about the event.

Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility.

Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to be told, like I want to see it and how I'm feeling in my life.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

A lot of people sayin’ f*** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.