Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.