The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

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!

In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

The most beautiful people are all in the library.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.