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

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

That which costs little is less valued.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

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.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.