The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

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

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

The avant-garde spirit is not just a youthful sentiment — I live my life by it.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is progress in spirals.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.