Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

Your mind must be prepared to face some kind of ‘failure’ or mistakes – take the lessons, face the consequences even if embarrassing, and march on.

There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.