Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

I believe social media is a powerful tool to transform our planet.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Thought is action in rehearsal.