You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being 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.

I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.

Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies

Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

You lose only the things you have

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

I'm not trying to put any more pressure on me because it's the playoffs.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.