Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Do you not wonder about the mysteries of life?

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

Once we go beyond this and start to open up and question and experience things in a different way, we can move forward.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.