To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. "
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.