It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.

Be good to yourself.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Beware of barking at underdogs; don't fight with people who have nothing to lose.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.