1. A person can be destroyed, but not defeated.

2. Now is not the time to think about what is missing, it is time to think about what you can do with what you have.

3. Despair is a sin.

4. Every day is a new day. Of course it's good to be lucky, but I'd rather do it exactly. That way, when luck comes, you'll be prepared.

5. A person can accept the fact of being destroyed, but cannot accept the fact of being defeated.

6. But none of these scars are new. They are as old as eroded spots in a fishless desert. Everything about him looked ancient except his eyes, which were as blue as the sea and were cheerful and unwilling to admit defeat.

7. But then again, nothing is easy.

8. In a sense, everything is killing each other. Fishing kills me, but it also feeds me.

9. Everything kills something else, just in different ways.

10. He is sure that he can defeat anyone he wants to.

11. You kill it for your pride, because you are a fisherman. You love it when it's alive, and you still love it when it's dead. If you love it, it is not a sin to kill it.

Maybe a bigger sin?

12. There is no failure, only death in battle!