"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."

"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership."

"Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, ... My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw."

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

"Medicines are only fit for old people."

"There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched."

"If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution."

"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

"People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence."