• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

• The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious.

• Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

• In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

• Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

• The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

• Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

• It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.

• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

• Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.