"Like Magellan, let us find our islands..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. [from the poem "When Death Comes"]”

“Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.”

“If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.”

“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”

“I miss all the shots I don't take.”

“Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.”

“Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

“I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!”

“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”