All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

A lie never lives to be old.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Nothing is black or white.

Freedom is from within.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.