Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.