What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

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.

Life is not so simple as you think without taking those risks, trying everything to make ends meet.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

Kenneth Copeland is a friend, innocent until proven guilty.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.