Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

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.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Every aspect of your life will be enlivened when you start to think and communicate with your heart and mind in cohesive coordinated harmony.

Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.