All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.

If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without.

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

An it harm none, do what ye will.

And you who seek to know me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery:For if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Let My worship be in theheart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasureare My rituals.

Goals want to realize themselves.

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

I have great faith in the military. I have great faith in certain of the commanders, certainly. But I have no faith in Hillary Clinton or the leadership.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.