When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

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.

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

Live life daringly.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.