I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

You came here of your own free will, Claire. I won’t be denied. You’re mine now, and I intend to keep you.

The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?

We mustn't waste time; for that's the stuff life's made of.

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.