Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.