My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

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.

Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.