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.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

It’s only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this?

You are truly the most expensive girl in all God’s creation. And the most precious.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

He can do most who has most power.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.