Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Dream’s elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue..

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s?

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".