A true initiation never ends.
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.
Some stories are true that never happened.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
To think, or not to think...This is the true question.
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
True metamorphosis doesn't come with flowcharts
If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
I always make music that is true to my spirit.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.
The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.
Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?
The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.
