By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.

Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!

The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.