"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie."

"I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant."

"Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking."

"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

"Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass."

"Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person."

"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."

"Am I my brother's keeper?"

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

"How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese."