I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

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!

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.