Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

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 word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Joe Paterno was a dictator.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter