If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice.

To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.