But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

Truth is pure awareness.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.