If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.