“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
“Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.”
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
“No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blueNeither words nor tears, nor silent fearswill keep me from coming back to you.”
“At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.”