I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it’s God’s will.

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

Donald Trump is actually doing what Bernie Sanders was billed as doing. He's doing new voters into the process.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

I tried to be as positive as possible, because I have the same birthday as Michael Jackson. He is my cosmic brother. I love him.