grades really cover up failure to teach.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.