Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.