As you cannot do what you wish you should wish what you can do.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

Love makes requests, not demands.

Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.

The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge. You feel sort of annoying.

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.