To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

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!

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.

Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

I'm from California, and still live in LA.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.