I don't do drugs, I am drugs

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.