Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate. Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Become vision itself.
If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.
In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice.