Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

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