The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

I beg young people to travel.

Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.