Friend, " replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth, " replied the mujik.

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.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

I love you exactly as you are.