About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.

Why be timid? Death is coming.

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.