"I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music."

“I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.”

“Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.”

“The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON Ultimate Collection – 58 Books in One Volume: The Power of Concentration, The Key To Mental Power Development & Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Secret of Success, Mind Power, Raja Yoga, Self-Healing by Thought Force…”, p.1692, e-artnow

“I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.”

“There is nothing personal about a personal ad.”

“I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.”

“True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.”

“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”