In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.