What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

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

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.