Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

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

Every noble work is at first impossible.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.