Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

You should only be scared of your imagination because it'll haunt you at night

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

Out of what... a thousand?