The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

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 never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.