Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

Amy, " Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.

If words are power then silence is superpower.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.