True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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.

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it.

There is evil hidden in everyone, mine came out left me bleeding and hurts people around me.

Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy…

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given so much to this world - and we are constantly giving.