We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

'Sackboy' - Speak honestly. Every action is truthful. You wait for no one who isn't ready. You believe in the now.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.