Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

A child is like a ship. One can never be too young to be steered to the right course.

All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.

I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.

Always examine the dice.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

We go through transformations when we are dealing with this world (spirit world). Go out and find whatever makes your spirit at peace.