It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling.

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

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

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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