It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

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 is no prayer greater than service.

Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.

There's this rushing sound, like white noise.The sound of nothing.

…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.

There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.