I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

When you do a negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to those who watch or get to know you. That is your brand.

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

Each of us can do something to help someone.