It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

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.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be res­pon­sible.

I am realistic – I expect miracles.