When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

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.

We encounter souls, not bodies.

Immeasurably, baby. I love you immeasurably.

Reality for me is what I create!

There are those who will see your success as their failure.

You are a great genius. Seek to fulfil it.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

I don't think the problem is telling people you're on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast.

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union?