I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.

There is nothing more romantic than absolute presence.

The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.

People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal.