As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

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.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

I think the most important thing for any driver is to know that he's getting equality of equipment and priority.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.