while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.

out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star, there is pain

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

But by the time we're in our thirties, I believe we should strive to own and respect who we are, regardless of our struggles and difficulties. After all, even every little and big mistake, like every scar, can be a lesson in humility—one of the greatest gifts of all.

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.

Try to bear lightly what needs must be.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.