It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.