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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

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.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.