Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:

I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

"Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"

Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.