The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.