Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.