“Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.”

“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.”

“His highs are achieved without drugs - they are born of a serious lust for life.”

“The Venetian Bridge and the fine cliff walks are a handsome background for a wealth of entertainment which most visitors find irresistible.”

“Wealth, fame, achievement, glory, power mean nothing if they do not give us peace of heart and peace of mind. That is the way, how God tests human acceptance.”

“But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.”

“For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. … Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).”

“What a foolish thing it is to be governed by a desire for fame and profit and to fret away one's whole life without a moment of peace. Great wealth is no guarantee of security. Wealth, in fact, tends to attract calamities and disaster.”

“How am I to obtain a very superior son who shall achieve world-wide fame?”

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”