Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

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.

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things.

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.