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

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

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

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