No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

In quietness the soul expands.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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