I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.