If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

We should respect all people.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.