Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death.

A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness.

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.