The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Many admire, few know.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Nature is wont to hide herself.