Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

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

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

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