[The] impersonal process of the market. . . can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.
There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.