I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul.

Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.

Consciousness is in this present moment, the awareness with every cell in your body the direct and experience of love.

If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?

Thought is the only concept that creates the unknown. You have everything you need to know in this moment.

Change the present then the change the future.

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.

Your mornings are very powerful. Be careful with them.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

I do not think we were afraid of death

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

It [success] is really by mistake.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Hillary Clinton's been proven to be a liar on so many different ways.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.