The real adventure in Moby Dick is the one that happens inside Captain Ahab. The rest is a fishing trip.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

Many would call me an adventurer, and I am one, only one of a different sort, one of those that risks his skin to demonstrate what he believes to be true.

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.