I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

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!

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

Do less; observe more; enjoy most.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.