In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

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!

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.