Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Freedom is relative.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

My grandpa was a preacher.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Every wall is a door.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.