Life is consciousness.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.