If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.