The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.