we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

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!

You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.

Is breá liom tú le mo chroí go, anois agus go deo.” "And I love you with all my heart, now and forever, Manus O'Brien.

The Creator of the universe knows me.

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

It's all the same when you're lonely

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

God is the water, and you are the faucet.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.