Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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.

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

Drawing is still the bottom line.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.