Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.