There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.