... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

Trust that you are connected to your being, which knows what to do at all times.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.