Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Curiosity is the main energy.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.