Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

Yo Mama’s so ugly, when she joined an ugly contest, they said, “Sorry, no professionals.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.