Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

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

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

My second hit was a flop.

We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers.