The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

A person preaches well that lives well.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!