What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

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