"This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet."

“An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.”

“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”

“Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God....”

“Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.”

“The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.”

“When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.”

“Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.”

“Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.”

Source : "Surviving Anxiety". www.theatlantic.com. January/February 2014.