"I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again."

“In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.”

“We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.”

Source : "Food Knowledge Is Health Power" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

“Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.”

Source : "Texas Gov. Perry signs 'Merry Christmas' bill into law". Speech at the State Capitol building in Austin, Texas, www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2013.

“O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night.”

“That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.111, New World Library

“Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound”

Source : Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)

“I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.”

“The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.”