Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Category: Action
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Category: Argument
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Category: Arts And Artists
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Category: Compliments
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Category: Death And Dying
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Category: Empathy
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Category: Giving
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Category: Goals
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Category: Hatred
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Category: Humankind
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Category: Ideas
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.
Category: Impulse
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Category: Knowledge
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Category: Literature
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Category: Orphan