The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

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.

To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.