One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

for a purpose without reason

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

I am many things. Stupid is not one of them. Your wrath is impressive for a mortal.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.