It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.

We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.