The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

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

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.