Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius. But she wanted him. That made all the difference in the end.

Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.