With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.