We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

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

Success is the process itself.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.