Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.