It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

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!

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?

You are free because I am freePetra HermansSeptember 26, 2016

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.