I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

Get to know the master within you. Fall at the feet of your Self.

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.

The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian, " Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.