He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.