If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.