Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.

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

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

Every noble work is at first impossible.

In quietness the soul expands.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.