I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.