It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.