There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

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!

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

I don't have any shame.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

I said I wouldn't leave her.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.