[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

Whenever you can, count.

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Characteristics cling to families.

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.