Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Children are like sponges

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

A strong soul recovers from any suffering.

Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.

All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind.

The only way Magick ever has power is when its secrets are truly secret. Once too many people know how it works, then it doesn’t work anymore.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.