All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

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.

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

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Every day you have to be open to like things you’ve never liked before. Every day you have to realize you can’t get too comfortable.

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.