“But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.”

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.

Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.

We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more of a challenge to do it without paper or sidekicks. I enjoy a good challenge.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

At some point you’re gonna have to take a chance on something.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

If I’m not pointing people to Jesus then I’m wasting my life.

My point is I’m kind of an outlier. For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind – that I’m able to talk to people about the music I’ve written.

In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.