I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.