Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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

The only lasting truth is change.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.