The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.