It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

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.

Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

I love to see people recognized [me on scene].

He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America.