Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.

Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.

Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they're doing so.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose.

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.