I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.