I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Mine is better than ours.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The brain is wider than the sky.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.