The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”

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 don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner.

Judgement does not come suddenly

A bold heart is half the battle.

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.