"I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought."

"I never thought of my music as dark…It can’t be that dark to get people through a dark period, can it?"

"The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of cas…"

"And for anyone to think that murder can be resolved by murdering, it's ridiculous. I mean, we look at all o…"

"There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates. It is self-created in the sense t…"

"We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be a colony, we don't want to be inferior. We want…"

"Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires."