He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats...

When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you....

One day,” she told us, “you’ll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more...

Secrets are lies by another name.

When you’re young you can’t work out the age of an adult – they’re just quite old, old, or very old.

We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.

There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

There’s room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world – that’s what I think.

If I learned anything in this life, I’ve learned that you can’t cling on.

I can hate you more, but I’ll never love you less.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

cause when there’s life there’s still hope

That’s what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don’t tell her. You have to remember always that she’s the...