Welcome everything 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.

Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love.

The world from it self is a brutal one.

To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.