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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.