“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”

Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

Believe you will be successful and you will.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Forced idleness evolves into beauty.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.