Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.