I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

It takes strength to become weak!

I've never done this with a woman like you before. Never wanted to. I only know... I don't want it to end.

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Don't allow anyone to steal your joy.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.