At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

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.

The Maker is very great in mercy.

Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.

I mean, I don’t want to pass judgment—I just wish my husband didn’t shoot deer.”“Oh, Mel, don’t worry. I’ve been hunting with your husband—the deer are completely safe.

Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.

That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.