Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn’t mean that you should always let it control your emotions.

Obstacles are there to give you more opportunities to grow and excel in life.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

If you like to run, you should keep running!

I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.