Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

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

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

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

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.