A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

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

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.