‘What did your rabbi consider the most essential thing?’ Whatever he happened to be engaged in at that particular moment he considered the most essential thing.

‘You're assuming,' said Dr. Robert, 'that the brain produces consciousness. I'm assuming that it transmits consciousness.

’Tis all a checker board of nights and days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom."

"If you could reason with religious people, there wouldn’t be any religious people."

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

"secret sewers of vice ... canalized in its flood of unimaginable thoughts, images, and pornographic words, revolting blasphemies [which] debases and perverts and degrades the noble gift of imagination"

"When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal."

“ 'Oh Tigger, where are your manners?' 'I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.' ”

“ ‘if you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?’ The begrimed-with-sweat farmer answered, ‘I would plow.’ “

“All good men are Anarchists… all just men are Anarchists. Jesus was an Anarchist.”

“By making ourselves lower than others we can use their wisdom and power as our own. Thus we can win without taking up arms, without getting angry, and without making enemies.”

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.”

“God Respects Me When I Work, He Loves Me When I Sing”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

“In the people who run such businesses we find only hypocrisy, profiteering, and disinformation… a perfect example of institutionalized selfishness.”

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”