Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Freedom comes in individual packages.

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.