History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

I'm a runner first before anything else.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

True healing means drawing the circle of our being larger and becoming more inclusive, more capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not for the sick alone, but for all humankind.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.