Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

Nearly everyone wants as least one outstanding meal a day.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.