Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.