Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.