If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

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In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

Consensus demands communication.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.