Quote

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.