“What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.”

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Depression is the absence of hope.

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairy tale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.

Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.