Emotions and Feelings

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

For a man to become a poet he must be in love, or miserable.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The greatest prayer is patience.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The vanity of being known to be entrusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.