The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Gods have many faces.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

Being poor is a normal thing.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.