Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

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.

It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success

He loved books

Most successful people move from fear to failure

I wish you all a long and happy life

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?