To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

When you are like the tree, there is oneness with the Earth, Sun and Moon, but still steadfast in your purpose.

Let love, joy, peace, and hope be the guiding lights of your life today, tomorrow, and forever.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I read good. I was an English major.