Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.