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Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.