Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

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

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.