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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

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

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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