Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Do not scorn little victories.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

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.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.