Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.