Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.