“I learned long ago not to restrict the world into what I believe to be possible, because that is precisely when the world surprises me.”

“I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.”

“And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.”

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

“I believed in clemency, once," Captain Noble said, at last, "A long time ago, before I learned that the world is a hard place, and those who cannot bear what befalls them, no matter how ill, will be crushed in favor of those who will. There is no clemency, Ellis, only survival.”

“I would never trade however long I was with you, for anything in the world, because to me, you are the world. You are my world.”