The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

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

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.