You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

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

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

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.