Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Don't confuse facts with reality.
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"
Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.
My life closed twice before its close
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed
The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.