All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.

The only men I love are dead.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.