The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

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 earlier you know who you are, the more effective and successful a life you will be able to live

When you change what you believe, you change what you do... which changes what you get.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Believe in and follow your dreams.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.