The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

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

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.