Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.