Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

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.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Live for possibilities. Live with passion and purpose.

Serving others is the surest and practical way of channeling your love. There is no love through lip service. If you love humanity, serve…

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

Everything starts with the customer.

Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers.