Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Some things are best mended by a break.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

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