I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.
Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.
How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.