In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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