That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

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

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

In the depths of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.