The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Life becomes boring when it has no destination or purpose.

Trust is the most important element. By con you can win once and lose forever but with honesty you can win over and over again.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination

Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.