The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.