Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Music is the soul of language.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

Decided, commit, act, succeed, repeat. The one thing that all the greats have in common is they sweat the small stuff and they pay very close attention to every detail.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.