I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

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!

When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

I have spent my entire life thinking of the Inquisitors as things, soulless creatures. But they are just men. Men can be swayed, and I have the power to do it.

She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.