We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

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.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.