All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Evening and morning and at noon will I pray.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

O, if so much beauty doth reveal Itself in every vein of life and nature, How beautiful must be the Source itself, The Ever Bright One.

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

I was in chemical jail.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.