The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.