For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

Faith is a flaming light.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.

These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.