I do not give money for just mere hopes.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.