An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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.

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!

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

Being different is good; embrace it.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.