Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many pieces of my love away. I hope I can give it all to someone, someday.

It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.