A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

Any reaction is better than none.

I dedicated myself to the game and never disrespected it.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.