Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.