If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

I think when you die, you die.

That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.