Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

You have a right not to be negative.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Biology doesn't make anyone a parent, " Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Well, who's going to be fired when Ted Cruz is president? Because this campaign now has repeatedly done things that they have to apologize for and no one's ever held accountable.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.