There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.