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Quotes by Romanian Authors

"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."

"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."

"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."

"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."

"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."

"The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone."

"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."

"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."

"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

"If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision."

"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."

"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."

"I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives."

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."

"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."

"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great."

"I don't care if you dream big or small. Do shit."

"Mediocracy is not an option, it s a temptation."

"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."

"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."
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