All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.