Wisdom

Writers do not find subjects.

The more I learn, the more I yearn.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

Experience will tell you if you need more of it.

White Space is where the world and all distraction falls away. Where the voice of the Divine can be heard. Where the Truth of who you are is found. Where miracles happen.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification.

To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion.

Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.

I believe the writer... Should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.