For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?