Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.