too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.