Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

if you will grow, everything will grow with you.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

Do something, Congress. Do anything.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Let's face it. Chocolate is the world's most well-loved food.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.