Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.