The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

I don't have kids. Maybe that's kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.

This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.