"Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty."

“We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross”

Source : Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

“You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.”

“We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.”

“The devil is compromise.”

“Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

“Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.”

“Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes, Raven Kaldera illuminates the subtle differences of the often forgotten Moon phases through the twelve zodiac signs. A must read for those walking the path of the Moon.”

“The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.”