Love is free; it is not practiced as a way of achieving other ends.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The only thing we can do is honestly learn from our falls.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

The choice to love is the choice to connect — to find ourselves in the other.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

Find your style and stick to it.

Patience is also a form of action.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.