All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Whenever you can, count.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Characteristics cling to families.

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

A smooth life is not a victorious life.