He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

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

Dreams only come true if youpoint yourself in their direction

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.