As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

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!

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.