The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.
If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.
Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
The U. S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.