I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.