Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

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!

Never trust money more than gold.

Keep focusing on God and all things will work out.

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.