I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

I don’t follow politics much.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Freedom is relative.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I always liked different things, rare things.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Common sense is not so common.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.