It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

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.

On the journey to achievement, you must be learning all the time.

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making me what I am.

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.