The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.

What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.

Cosmic Ordering is with you in all that you do.

She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.