Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Sometimes, we think faster than what you write.

Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

For me, humor is everything!

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

Goal training is important. If there's a 5K walk in the community, train for that.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.