We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

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.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.