He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

A renegade is someone who chooses the narrow way because it's the Jesus way . . . the way of life, health and growth.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

I love to write poetry.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.