Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Love is the only prayer I know.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

Never risk in the dark to search the light. Conversely, be light and shine in the darkness as a moon.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

I've gotten more than two million votes more than anybody else.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.