It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
“Sometimes,” said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.’
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.