We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.