Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Common sense is not so common.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.