Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

The mind replays what the heart can't delete.

Life gets in the way of Creativity, but it's up to us not to let it interfere more than necessary.

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.