Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.