True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.