Understanding is the beginning of approving.

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.

A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...

One choice changes everything. The right choice changes your world.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.