It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.