Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

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.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.