"Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat."

“She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”

Source : Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

“Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

“When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."”

“There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God”

“Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2007). “Swordspoint”, p.333, Spectra

“A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.”

Source : "I don't want to be a dictator or to be adored" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

“But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.”