Inspiration Quotes

A bird is safe in its nest—but that is not what its wings are made for

It is not down on any map; true places never are

You do not have to be fearless, doing it afraid is just as brave

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions

Energy is eternal delight

The only journey is the one within

Dwell in the possibility and the world will become richer than your dreams could imagine

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper

Leap, and the net will appear

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves

Everything you can imagine is real

I saw the future and it works

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken

You must have spirit to bear the weight of the world and wings to rise above it

What is to give light must endure burning

Originality is a returning to the origin, thus, originality means returning, through one’s own means, to simplicity of the early solutions

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

The lantern of the experience only lights the one step in front of you

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams

Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field do not turn your face, for that would be to turn it to death

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

Light is the task where many share the toil

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

I am a part of all that I have met

In the depth of the winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

I would rather die of passion than of boredom

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly, we grow

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship

To see takes time, like having a friend takes time

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite

What is now proved was once only imagined

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them

He climbed cathedral mountains, and he saw silver clouds below; he saw everything as far as you can see

The lyre’s strings do not sing unless they are stretched

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

No use trying, one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast

I love those who yearn for the impossible

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays

Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter

There are years that ask questions and years that answer

I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work

I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

It is not by muscling our way through the forest but by waiting for the quiet animal to come out of the thicket that we catch the strange beautiful thing

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself

Enthusiasm moves the world

Every block of granite contains a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead

The highest problem of every art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality

We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they and things at a greater distance

He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sunrise

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song

Let us not speak, let us not think, let us dream only, with an attentive gaze fixed on the unapproachable

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea

What I cannot create, I do not understand

Become who you are

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world

Begin anywhere

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

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

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears

The function of art is to disturb; science reassures

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it

You create your opportunities by asking for them

If one looks for infinity, it is easy to find it. There is infinity in every grain of sand

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

You cannot step into the same river twice, for other waters are continually flowing on

You must follow the argument wherever it leads

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies

Blessed are those who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken

A landscape cleansed of mystery is a world shorn of possibility

In the valleys I have grown, in the mountains I will be remembered

The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible

Begin with an idea and then become a slave to it until it is finished

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and science

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be

The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility

The creation of beauty is art’s only purpose; life, its only school

The most sublime act is to set another before you

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess

A talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

The longest journey is the journey inward

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices

The imagination is an instrument of transportation, not definition

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them

The painter tries to master color, but in fact he is its slave

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden

The wound is the place where the Light enters you

The pen is the tongue of the mind

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

If I cannot bend the heavens above, I will move the earth below

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth

The horizon tries but it is not as kind on the eyes as you

The painter should not paint only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him

I shut my eyes in order to see

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things

The heart has its order, the mind its confusion

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world

Every artist was first an amateur

He who wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell

There are no facts, only interpretations

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another

You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust

I invent nothing, I rediscover

When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it

Not all those who wander are lost

The painter tries to master color, but in fact, he is its slave

We must risk delight, we can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light

Become such as you are, having learned what that is

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it

There is another world, but it is in this one

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all

You must have a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Genius is the fire that lights itself

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

If I waited till I felt like writing, I’d never write at all

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean; the mind, when passion and learning meet

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion… this is the place to go now, but the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons

The painter tries to master color, but in fact he is its servant

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly

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

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories

Stars rise, not from the east, but from the darkness inside us

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through—listen to this music

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts

The best dreams happen when you’re awake

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth

You throw the sand against the wind, and the wind blows it back again

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star

It is precisely because we cannot predict the future that we are required to be responsible for it

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, all the maps change

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

We must be the change we wish to see in the world

There are years that ask questions and years that answer

You must once in your life have let yourself go, just as the lunatics do, and then recovered again, that's all

The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry; deeper motives contribute to it

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes

The wind rises; we must try to live

The best way out is always through

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

To understand is to invent

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

The earth has music for those who listen

I saw the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless

The bluebird carries the sky on its back

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind

Leap over the edge and build your wings on the way down

The man who has no imagination has no wings

We must risk delight, we can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

Something opens our wings, something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, may never return to its original dimensions.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle

To read is to voyage through time

Trust that still, small voice that says ‘this might work and I’ll try it’

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change

The wind does not break a tree that bends

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore

The fireflies’ light is shining before it is seen, otherwise it would not be seen

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Every exit is an entry somewhere else

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures

To live without hope is to cease to live

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics

The earth laughs in flowers

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced, even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude

The painter tries to master color, but in fact, he is its servant

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

I write to discover what I know

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

At the still point of the turning world, neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees; but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt

The muse comes to those who wait, but she favors those who act

Only in the darkness can you see the stars

The energy of the mind is the essence of life

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

There are no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something

You shall above all things be glad and young. For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad, whatever’s living will yourself become

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart

There is a crack in every wall that’s built—search long enough, you’ll find the keyhole for your wonder

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities

What is essential is invisible to the eye

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am

Light tomorrow with today

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing

We turn not older with years, but newer every day

A wise man walks with his head bowed, humble before every leaf, because he knows the life in it is greater than his own

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire

I dwell in possibility

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day

Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field do not turn your face, for that would be to turn it to death

Leap, and the net will appear

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge

We live in an old chaos of the sun, or old dependency of dust

Nothing is as important to a young man as a sound mind in a robust body

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved

Every morning I walk with my dogs, and I think about the mystery I want to inhabit today

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

I am rooted, but I flow

I want to write poems as cold as the dawn and as clear as a child’s first tears

You must have your heart on fire and your mind on ice

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will

To live is to be slowly born

To create, one must first question everything

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success—you dream, you dare and you fly

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—it gives a lovely light

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings