When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.