Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

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!

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

To be Spirit-filled is to be Christ-centered.

I was a bad boy as a child.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.