“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”

“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.”

“Serialism is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.…”

“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

“A king is a person who has outward leadership of the people, if he is among the people of external phenomena. If he is from among the people of hidden realities, then he possesses both the inner and the outer, whenever he is so destined.”

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ”

“Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)”

“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

“Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.”