It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

The spirit of a man shall sustain him in his sick bed.

It turns out that there are many powers of the heart--among them intuition, intention, gratitude, forgiveness, resilience, and, of course, love.

Spread the message of peace to become a pigeon carrying peace everywhere.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

I'm still the king of me.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind.