You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Think for yourself and question authority.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The universe is an intelligence test.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Science is all metaphor.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.

Whenever in doubt turn off your mind relax float downstream.

Civilization is unbearable but it is less unbearable at the top.

One cannot evolve from ones robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

They've outlawed the No. 1 vegetable on the planet.

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Virtue.

People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements.

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.

I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.