It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Love conquers everything even karma.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.