“The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.”

“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the measure of a country isn't in how its richest citizens fare, but in how its poorest citizens live.”

“Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.”

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”