“I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this—that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.”

“I've deliberately chosen a career where I've worked with people who work on issues that deal with those who have the least among us, because I've never shaken, never been able to shake the caste that I come from.”

“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.”

“Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?”

“But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!”

“That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.”

“Illusion is primarily of a mental quality and was characteristic of the attitude of mind of those people who are more intellectual than emotional. They have outgrown glamour as usually understood. It is the misunderstanding of ideas and thoughtforms of which they are guilty, and of misinterpretations.”

“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

“Many people there are in this kingdom who never see a Gazette to the day of their deaths, and very mischievous would be the consequences if they were bound by a notice inserted in it.”