...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I have not yet begun to fight!

He who will not risk cannot win.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Many want to take care their wallet but I think that is not so important if You are not Happy

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away, " he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

I like when things happen organically and make sense.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.