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.

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

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.

Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

The trees reach up above me toward the sky, stretching out their great limbs in an intricate pattern that reminds me of the pattern of light... the pattern shifting back and forth as I climb.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

Control what you can, acknowledge what you cannot.

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.