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.

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.

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.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

Your local dreams contain global elements

There is a girl who still writes you

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.