R. D. Hicks Quotes

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

Don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery.

If you are living for tomorrow, you will always be one day behind.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.

The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.