No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.