If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

Men always makes gods in their own image.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

Common SenseAnd marvellous magicShare the same bough

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.