A scholar has to know a little of everything.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.