The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off. And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.