If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

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.

Many books describe different problem solving techniques, but solving complicated problems in reality is not so easy.

[Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.