Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.