To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.