Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.