He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

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!

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion?

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.