Edward believes that all religions are cousins at heart and begin in the right spirit but then they are corrupted by the desire for power.

I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.

...awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.

Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.

All stories are, in some form, prayers.

But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair.

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.

The more you remain aware with all the internal and external changes of life, more you allow yourself to move deeper towards the source.

This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

The more spastic song structure I have, the more I hate it afterwards.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

I think war should be illegal.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.