Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I write to discover what I think.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

I have to stay hydrated so I don't pass out onstage!

We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.

There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.