Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

God’s provision is timely.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.