"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities."

"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is neccessary."

"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."

"Don鈥檛 blog what you don鈥檛 own."

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."