... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

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!

I wish Goodreads was also a dating site.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.