The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Sometimes I just need to be alone with what I believe in.

To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.

Do not indulge your weaknesses!

....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.