Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead...

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.