Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

After all, the world is still great.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.