A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.

Wildness is my suiting scene.

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.