"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

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 ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.

What was it about my obsession with romance that always made me feel embarrassed? Like it was a silly, girlish thing to obsess about. In reality, it was what we all wanted, right?

Do what you love the money will follow.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Every decoding is another encoding.

The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.