It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

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!

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

There are times when one shall forgive oneself. Therein lies the best possibilities of learning & improving.

Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I noticed when I was driving around that they changed the name of the Interborough Parkway to the Jackie Robinson Parkway. And the Interborough family is very upset about this.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.