He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

She wants you to be a god, " I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

Patroclus, ' he said. He was always better with words than I.

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

This and this and this.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.