One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

If you want to be in business, your friends need to be in business too.

Light tomorrow with today.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.'

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.