There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Listen with your heart, listen to your inner voice of wisdom, listen to your dreams. You know what is right for you.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.