A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.