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 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 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.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

Alice is fictional. This isn't.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.