Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

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.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.