It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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.

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

Never look back, reminising on yesterday, smile for the future, tomorrow's a new day.