“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
“We are the change that we seek.”
“He who does not really feel himself lost is obliged to remain in illusions.”
“The man with the clear head is the man who frees himself from these fantastic “ideas” and looks at the world without illusions.”
“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce the use of force to the last resort.”
“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
“We do not live to think; we think in order to live.”
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
“I am myself and my circumstance; and if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”
“Grace changes us and the change is painful.”
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.”
“Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.”
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
“I write to discover what I know.”
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
“I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.”
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”