“Some people make a difference, some people make you different.”

“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”

“Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffeeToo bad both are a luxury.”

“I wish that the last breath of your life is a sigh of relief.”

“The most overpowering will is the will to not work.”

“As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.”

“At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hea...”

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above t...”

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully a...”

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry...”

“I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into s...”

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”