Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

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

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.