Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

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.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.