In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public.

To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.