With Gold A Man Can Do Anything.

One Does Not Discover New Lands Without Consenting To Lose Sight Of The Shore For A Very Long Time. Variants Include "you Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore".

I Have Always Read That The World, Both Land And Water, Was Spherical, As The Authority And Researches Of Ptolemy And All The Others Who Have Written On This Subject Demonstrate And Prove, As Do The Eclipses Of The Moon And Other Experiments That Are Made From East To West, And The Elevation Of The North Star From North To South.

The Tempest Was Terrible And Separated Me From My [other] Vessels That Night, Putting Every One Of Them In Desperate Straits, With Nothing To Look Forward To But Death. Each Was Certain The Others Had Been Destroyed. What Man Ever Born, Not Excepting Job, Who Would Not Have Died Of Despair, When In Such Weather Seeking Safety For My Son, My Brother, Shipmates, And Myself, We Were Forbidden [access To] The Land And The Harbors Which I, By God's Will And Sweating Blood, Had Won For Spain?

I Found That Part Of It Towards San Salvador Extending From North To South Five Leagues, And The Other Side Which We Coasted Along, Ran From East To West More Than Ten Leagues.

For The Execution Of The Voyage To The Indies, I Did Not Make Use Of Intelligence, Mathematics Or Maps.