Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.