Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

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!

We always vilify what we don't understand.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance

I could have drowned…and my brother didn’t even care.

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.