To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
-Henry David Thoreau
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
Scholars who incessantly contemplate acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.