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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

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

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.