Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.