And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.

I can't tell anyone to vote.

My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

Play a new game, not the older game but faster.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.