Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

When in doubt, don’t.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.