One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy one".

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... To strengthen each other... To be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

If it costs you your peace it's too expensive

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.

Happiness is a form of courage.