I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

But unlike Lachlan and Alison, my demons aren’t self-induced. My demons are fate’s way of telling me I won’t escape unscathed.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.