"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."

"The fear of death comes from limited awareness."

"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."