Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Money is not only the motivating factor, most of the time powerful positive words do

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

I would like to have campaign spending limits...

You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.