How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

A goal without a date is just a dream.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.