Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

What do years have to do with age?

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.