the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.