When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Discover the inner beauty and wonder within your heart. When you open then follow your Heart your life will become truly wonderful.

When you release the garbage of negativity, you can digest positivity for your destiny.

It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.