Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

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.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood, " she said. "make me pretty.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance