The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety’s off and I put on her. Oh stick ‘em up, stick ‘em up. Ready to shoot.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.