My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

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.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

To forgive does not mean to forget.

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.

And believe me, this country thinks it's [using private e-mail by Hillary Clinton] - really thinks it's disgraceful, also

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

I'm a lurid character!

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.