The germ of creation lies in violence.

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.

Divinities of the soul are life, light and love.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Trying is failing with honor

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.