“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.