Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

I wait for the morning of my tears