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

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Nothing is black or white.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.