“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”

I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all.

We’re now the results of our past actions, and in the future we’ll be the results of the actions we’re performing now.

It’s by your own actions you’re able to get more in a mess or out of one. It’s your own actions that relieve or bind you.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

I’d rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don’t understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don’t mind no frowns, cheer down.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.

What’s often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

Once you realize something, then you can’t pretend you don’t know it any more.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

It’s easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

All I got to be is be happy.

Even if it’s being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it’s still only a temporary thing.

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one’s retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.