Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.