I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.