Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.