Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.