All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

Every noble work is at first impossible.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

In quietness the soul expands.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.