Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

learn from the past live in the present plan for the future

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I loved you. Eventually I came to see that that Someone was me.

In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.