The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.