One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.