All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

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

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

Success is the process itself.

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

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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