To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.