The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

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.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!