You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

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

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

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

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

In quietness the soul expands.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

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