It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend.

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

Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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

I am all the things I have ever loved.

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

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

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

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

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