What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

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.

I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

My truth is this: That I don't know what will happen tomorrow because you can never know.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.