A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach.

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

Whatever is meant for you the universe shall be given to you. Do not despair.

Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being tr

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.