A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

I am not a man of fear, but I am a man that knows how to fear. Without fear, we become lazy. Without fear, we become reckless. Fear doesn't limit a man, it keeps the man sharp.

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

The gift of writing

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.