Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.