One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

The most powerful affirmation you will ever find is this: “I am as God created me.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like Magnus.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.