Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.