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

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

The color of truth is gray.

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.