Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

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

In quietness the soul expands.

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

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.