A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.