It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

If you don’t want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Come on, Jellal! You can't let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza's sake! So come here! We'll be with you too! We're on the same team, right?! Jellal!

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.