Great Throughts Treasury

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."

"Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon human intercourse."

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. "

"Who tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does. "

"People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control. "

"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. "

"A great artist is never poor."

"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."

"Don't count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count."