Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

CAN is the enemy of DO.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.