Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. |

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. |

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. |

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. |

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. |

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. |

Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it. |

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken |

Don't count the things you do. Do the things that count. |

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. |

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. |

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. |

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears. |

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. |

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. |

Life is not fair, get used to it. |

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. |

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. |

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. |

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. |

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. |

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. |

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution. |

Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance. |