The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

I find that if you just talk, your mouth comes up with stuff.

Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music

It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true.

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.