Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Be that self which one truly is.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Boards don't hit back.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Thought is free.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.