Take what you can use and let the rest go by

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?