To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by 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.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. [Eric] Bristow is only 27.

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.