Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and those great big furry spiders.

By March, 70 percent of women would be employed.