Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Every mistake is a new style.

What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.