Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.

Some things are best mended by a break.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

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

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

The only lasting truth is change.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.