The devil tempted Christ; yes, but it was Christ who tempted the devil to tempt him. - Samuel Butler

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

You can have all ego, or all non-ego, but in theory you cannot have half one and half the other — yet in practice this is exactly what you must have, for everything is both itself and not itself at one and the same time.'''