“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”

An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.

In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

I’ve always loved music videos – I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand.

There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.