...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

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!

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring A lot of Batman fans might say that.

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.