For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.Christopher Columbus
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.Christopher Columbus
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. George William Curtis
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.Christopher Columbus
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.William Shakespeare
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.Norman Cousins