It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.