Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Mental –ill health is delusion.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.