You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

- Bernard Moitessier

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

- Bernard Moitessier

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

- Bernard Moitessier

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and with…

- Bernard Moitessier

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret thin…

- Bernard Moitessier

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of t…

- Bernard Moitessier