"A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body."

“To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.”

“A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.”

“It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.”

“Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.”

Source : Echo Bodine (1999). “Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death”, p.142, New World Library

“It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.”

“She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.”

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”

“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”

Source : "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.