The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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