One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.