James Rozoff

Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I__ be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to make the world a better place whereas they either consciously desire to make it worse or else are willing to make it so through wrong ideas. There is only one way to make the world we are trying to create, and that is to get rid of them, get rid of every last one of them. And the only way to do that is to stop creating them. Because there is no __hey_ until we choose to see someone as such. When we choose to see the humanity in everyone, then there is no more they, there is only us.

Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We__e just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it__ the be all and end all.

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others_ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they__e known for a lifetime.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

My problem as a writer is that__henever I meet someone for the first time__ immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.

We have created a world we don__ like, don__ understand and don__ trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.