The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

People protect what they love.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.

...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...

I don't need anybody to handle my problems, only I am capable of solving them my self.

Even the good guys, ' she said, 'can't win all the time.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.