“I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.

If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.

The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.