and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.

Change is no threat to culture.