Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!