These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.

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

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

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