No matter what level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.
Love conquers all.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.