Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.