I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin. . . Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
Not everyone can lead worship.