"The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next."

“Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.”

“I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.”

“The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.”

“It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.”

Source : Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.384, Cosimo, Inc.

“What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press

“Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.”