To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shin'a'in saying

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

I love tranquil solitude.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.