I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

People increase their use of the term 'sir' when their angry. Little do they know, it only causes me to feel more like I'm wearing a top hat.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.