But the old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of his great catch.

You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed.

The complexity of things—the things within things—just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

本当の強さとは、弱さを認めることだ。

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."