Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.

These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.

You don't meet the people you love, you recognize them.

In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.