Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.