Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
We're lost, but we're making good time
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
All thinking men are atheists.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
