“ It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore. Robert Kurson
“ Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution.— WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp Robert Kurson
“ History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past. Robert Kurson
“ Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was Robert Kurson
“ After the meal, Borman dropped me off at my hotel, then went to visit his wife at the nursing home where she lives. As he drove away, it seemed to me strange—I felt I’d come to know Susan as well as I… Robert Kurson
“ It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him. Robert Kurson
“ If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. – If you follow in another’s footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. – Excellence is born of preparation, dedication… Robert Kurson
“ If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say whic… Robert Kurson
“ Not all divers succumb to panic as Drozd did. A great diver learns to stand down his emotions. At the moment he becomes lost or blinded or tangled or trapped, that instant when millions of years of ev… Robert Kurson
“ In the United States, of the ten million certified scuba divers, it is likely that only a few hundred dive deep for shipwrecks. To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of wh… Robert Kurson
“ ...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself Robert Kurson
“ The only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach. Robert Kurson
