I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.