“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”