Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

Donald Trump has spent his entire campaign offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.