Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"

"He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it."The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy."

"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."