The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

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 only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Sometimes good is preventing us for being better".rbasequia..

Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.