The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

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.

The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it, and your experiences are what you say they are.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

I wish you way more than luck.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.