You monkeys only think you're running things.

As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.

Sure thing, Gumdrop.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.