The wisest man may be a blind father.

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.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.