Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

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.

Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

Oh, don't worry! I'm always okay!

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.