Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.

Life is short and so is money.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

In the contradiction lies the hope.