Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

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.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

I know what it is to have nothing and plenty.Always count your blessing and be grateful.

One always expects something else.

My sister really drooled a lot when she was younger. For her wedding, I was going to get her one of those lace drool cups that go around the ears.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.