"Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the cheif's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, aid Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He adds that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart."
— Laurens van der Post

"This is what midlife reveals: not what you will do, but what you won't do; not how far you might go, but the limit of how far you can go. Once I hoped to be brilliant. I hoped to be the female Faulkner. Once, the fact that I was not the female Faulkner was agonizing to me. Now, in my forties, I accept this."
— Lauren Slater

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
— Alan Kay

"Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
— Butch Hancock

“All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us posses a life devoid of magic, barren of grace, divorced from power.”
— Julia Cameron

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, the expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
—Martha Graham

“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. ”
— Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly; this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.”
— Albert Einstein

“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses' --cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
— Albert Einstein

“It takes very little, actually, to dynamite a person's unbelief. We all sit poised to topple over at the first little cataclysmic miracle. We walk around all day waiting to be duped, healed, made whole and holy, transformed.”
— Linda McCullough Moore

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
— H.L. Mencken

“Bring a rhythm to your life that has a share of solitude, stillness, and silence in it, and you will gradually come home. That is what spirituality is: the art of homecoming.”
— John O'Donohue, Interview in The Sun magazine

“Solitude is the sense of space as nourishing. What usually happens with solitude is that people equate it with loneliness, which frightens them. But I don't know anyone who has a good friendship or love relationship in which there are not long periods of solitude. There is a way in which we treat our relationships almost like a colonial expedition: we want to colonize the space, all the territory in between, until there is no wilderness left. Most couples who have deadend in each other's presence have colonized their space this way. They have domesticated each other beyond recognition...I think it is more interesting to be with somebody who still has his wilderness territory--and by that I don't mean bleak, burned-out, damaged areas where wounding has occurred; rather, I mean genuine wilderness.”
— John O'Donohue, interview in the Sun Magazine