Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

Think for yourself and question authority.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

You can't win with sin.

Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.

We don't want wars even when we win.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.