It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

To lay down… limits to the action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights… [are] the main objects.

I don’t have a favorite song that I’ve written. But I do have a favorite song: ‘Always on My Mind,’ the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

I’m going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

I didn’t really have any idea of what Hollywood was except that it was a place where the made movies.

Fear has two meaning; ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

[on Kylie Jenner’s cover shoot] I need a half hour to cry

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Cointelpro really told you something about the government. Therefore, it was basically suppressed, it is still suppressed so that people don’t know anything about it. Watergate, on the other hand, was a minor scandal.

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don’t know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it’s kind of stuck with me.

A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

How do you expect me to see your nasty-looking eye ball if you don’t look straight ahead?

Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

Only debt is forever.