Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.