Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

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.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realis

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.