"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"Avarice is the sphincter of the heart."

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."

"We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge."

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything"

"I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there."

"I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep."

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."

"Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light."

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."

"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."

"There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to."