People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.