Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

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.

More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

This being-nice crap was for thebirds.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.