One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

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.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

We are people of worth because God lives in us.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.