A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

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

Live for each second without hesitation.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

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