But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

I will not give or back off from my path.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.