Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief.

I always just want to move along to the next step.

I've been watching The Wire recently.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.