Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

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.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are, then why wouldn't you like more metal, widen your net, and include hair metal?

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.