To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.To him...a touch is a blow,a sound is a noise,a misfortune is a tragedy,a joy is an ecstasy,a friend is a lover,a lover is a god,and failure is death.Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.