In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess - we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all.
Simple things don't interest me.
My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.
I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.