How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no 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.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.