A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.