“I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public, talent in privacy”

“War is what happens when language fails”

“The better you feel, the better things go”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”

“There is no remedy to love, but to love more”

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken”

“A vessel that leaks can never be full”

“Grow what brings joy”

“A home in peace is a mind at ease”

Nature is my best medicine

“No form of nature is inferior to art, for the arts merely imitate natural forms”

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear”