Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

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.

Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.