Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

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!

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.

My heart is breaking for a little love

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it.