We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

God only speaks to those who understand the language

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

I think passion is the magnet to anything.