After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

It's in the god's hands.

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.