There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

My Body, My Soul and I. My body is mine, but my body is not me, My body is an expression of my soul. My soul is mine, but my soul is not me, My soul is an expression of me - for I am.

The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.

I kept running until someone saw the chase and hid me inside their house.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.

and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.