There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

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.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.