Solitude is bearable only with God.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.