Man is never perfect nor contented.

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.

Become a positive person by seeing the bigger picture of whatever you dream of doing. Dream big and act big! It’s your time to have a bigger image of you!

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.

Our mind can move directly and aggressively on impulse, while our spirit moves gently and calmly on our intuition.

If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.