He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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.

A good liar must have a good memory.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

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

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

Moonlight is sculpture.

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.