The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

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

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

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

Moonlight is sculpture.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.