The Old Man and the Sea

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact.

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.