It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The coming being is whatever being.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

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