Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.

The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.