Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.

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.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!

Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

The people say what they like and then I do what I like

There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.