Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

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

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.

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.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.

If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.

I didn't mean to hurt her.

The most influential and frequent voice you hear is your inner-voice. It can work in your favor or against you, depending on what you listen to and act upon.

The last time I used? What do you mean? I used my toaster this morning.

You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.