Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.

Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.

Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.