We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

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.

Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might. -Oromis

Respect is not delivered it is earned. If you want more respect in the world treat people with tremendous respect.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

The child endures all things.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.