The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Appearances are deceiving.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Believe it, future generations.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.