Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul bleeds. From that blood, stories are born. It's worth it.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

Dignity is more important than wealth.

I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

We trust and believe in what we love.

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense