What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.