It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.