I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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