If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

No concept is a carrier of life.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.