If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Art is the proper task of life.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

God has no religion.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character,

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Man is the cruelest animal.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.