Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.