The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

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.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.

Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'