Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings.

Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.

There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

What we live by we die by.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.