He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

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.

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.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

What does your birth date say about you? You are old!

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Break my face, my back, my arms, my neck. But please don't break my heart.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.