I met his eyes because I could not refuse them... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

Last century’s magic is this year’s science.

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.

... Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

When you admire others, you become one with them and the world loves you.

I'm a big deal That's why I get more head than a pigtail

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.