The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

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.

I celebrate life with a different color each day.That way, each day is different.

A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know.

Peace is the way, not the destination.

Why belittle others and make a lot of enemies for yourself, when you could earn their utmost respect by teaching them some valuable things?

Health is the great blessing of God.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.