Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.