Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Patience is the art of hoping.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.