“Dear God, be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small. ”

“Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations.”

“But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land."(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)”

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!”

“Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”

“I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.”