The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him.

My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears!

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup Winning Six.