Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.