Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

Think for yourself and question authority.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves

From one small spark a bushfire grows.Sellers of misery are our foes.Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame.Point your finger at those to blame.

I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.