We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

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 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 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.

The only way to learn who you are is to leave home.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.