A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

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

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

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

Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

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

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