All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Humility is attentive patience.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Freedom is from within.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.