Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Victor Hugo

Good, better, best - never let it rest - till your good is better - and your better best.http://www.furphys.com.au/legend/water-cart.html

John Furphy, Inscription on the

There is no reason to regard God as immune fromconsideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there iscertainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neitherproved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.

Richard Dawkins

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?

Bernard Berenson

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Izaak Walton

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.can be found attributed to: Herbert Spencer, Robert Frost, Michael Pritchard, John Fredericksen, humorous

Anon.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Robert Toombs

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Albert Einstein

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Bertrand Russell

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present centuryshows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

Arthur Schopenhauer

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Stephen Hawking