Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

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.

Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

It is sexy in here or is it just me?

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.