“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

“Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.”

“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.”

“Maitreya says 'To get rid of war is not so difficult. It's really very simple. You just have to have a change of heart. That's all. You just have to change your heart.' Send it out to be cleaned...dry cleaned heart... you have to look at life differently. You have to look at your self differently to understand what we're here, what we're here for, why we're in incarnation at all....”

“We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”

“The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.”

“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”

“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”

“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”

“We're rapidly creating an extraordinary silicon-based petri dish for evolution of intelligence. By the year 2025… we're likely to have computers whose raw processing power exceeds that of the human brain. Also, we're likely to have more computers than people…”