the brain works better if the hand works too.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!