We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being.

There is personal power within every man.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.