- “If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.”
- To the question : When were your spirits at the lowest ebb? – the obvious answer seemed to be “when the gin gave out”
- “Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.”
- “The only way to live life to the full is to do something that depends on both the brain and on physical sense and action”
