If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.

Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?''I'm called Chocho, ' Will said...'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Hillary Clinton said she hopes America is ready for a woman in the Oval Office. That was the great thing about her husband Bill: he was always ready for a woman in the Oval Office.

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Be dignified, honest and truthful.